Proposal

Offering customized, sustainable, and affordable reproductions of Mies van der Rohe’s classic Farnsworth House. Because why should only one person own a classic?

A Mies for All (AMFA) aims to develop a business that will make possible the serial reproduction of iconic architecture – starting with the Farnsworth House. Shouldn’t everyone have the possibility of living in a Farnsworth, or any classic house for that matter? Other fields of design already take mass production as a given. You can purchase an Eames chair or a Louis Vuitton bag – so why not buy a Farnsworth?

The demand exists. The proof lies in the countless pseudo-Farnsworths designed over the past half-century, published in architectural lifestyle magazines like Dwell. A Mies for All takes this demand and transforms it into a successful, sustainable, and affordable product.

In exploring this challenge, AMFA touches on a century-old promise that forms the foundation of modern architecture – the promise of mass production and maximized efficiency. Over the century this promise has been lost, and has given way to architecture that is highly composed, customized, and tailor-made. AMFA hopes to revive and fulfill this promise of the modern with the help of digital technology.

Idea

"I have tried to make (in the Farnsworth) an architecture that anyone can do."